On 25 March 2017, IDC joined forces with the The International Centre of Geopolitics and Foresight Analysis (CIGPA) for a high-level conference in Paris on the consequences for the Middle East of a possible rapprochement between the USA and Russia.

The president and director of studies were respectively speaker and chairman at an event on religious tolerance and the support for Christians, organised by the Holy See and the Russian Federation at the UN in Geneva on 7 March 2017.